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Ant wrote

however it sorta clashes with my feeling of attachment to homeland

With my best understanding, the concern is much more than this.

to stay where you were born and eat meat or find a place where you can eat plant-based.

To leave where you are from is also to change your relation to indigeneity. Indigeneity is first and foremost a relation to the land, one which is mutualistic and carries the weight of the past. Cosmologies of indigenous groups are place-based. Those cosmologies and value systems are what makes indigenous groups cohere, what makes those groups reject hierarchies and the separation of various spheres of life, like the political, social, religious.
This level of indigeneity is lost already in most places, but reducing the problem to just leaving one's homeland, especially as an individual rather than the society, seems to me only possible after some of the most important parts of indigeneity are lost.

Which is just to say, I don't think it is that simple.

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I usually consider enemies to be people I would kill if I could get away with it. So I have enemies.

I don't think there's any more to it, unless you are a pacifist. The politics of escape is complicated. What kinds of violence can we participate in without (re)producing hierarchies? I think there are some.

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Yes, it's complicated. Still, she is one of us, if we are good enough. We're talking about someone who is textbook nihilist anti-work anarchist who literally talks about anarchy and anarchists and appears on panels talking about anarchisms otherwise, and who has a very specific politics of citation that just reflects a dissociation from the white failings (of anarchism and other things) while living anarchy. Which is one of the better kinds of anarchist much of the time.

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I would say that indigeneity is an appropriate relation to the land, which includes bringing about a relationship that becomes most enriching to it.

This classic video on how wolves change rivers is a useful entry point into thinking about how certain kinds of predatory behaviour enriches the biome as a whole. In cases like those, hunting can have a broader mutualistic relationship to the ecosystem. Then it becomes a question of how you go about it.

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Reply to comment by asterism in What cha readin' fools?! by asterism

Kollontai was an interesting person. She was a communist but critiqued a lot of the mainstream Marxist bullshit, and from an increasingly anarchist perspective.

Then she meets Emma Goldman. Starts going extra hard open vocal opposition to both Lenin and Trotsky. Doing so completely fucked her 'political' future in Moscow, she was totally ostracised and under threat. She never recovers, and survives in some periphery (iirc after appealing to papa Stalin for what was basically exile) as a functionary for the state.
I think someone made her see death and she chose compromise.

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